First good car

Hi Veeky Forums, not a frequent user of the board, but i figured you'd have the best advices (yeah i red the sticky).

I'm considering buying a car, mainly as a daily driver, but that should also be:

- RWD
- Packing a good chassis (good enough at least)
- Not fuck expensive
- Preferably not xboxhuge

Trick is i'm a eurofag, so a lot of make and models you guys enjoy are unavailable to me.
I consider dropping up to 5k yurobucks, not including later mods and such.
And yes, with a stick.

> Inb4 miata

Why not a miata, but is it a good plateform to learn RWD handling? That's mainly all that matters to me.

buy an e46 with service history

dont buy an E46.

>but is it a good plateform to learn RWD handling?

you mean platform? and this is something you couldve googled yourself.

Because its cheap to own, cheap /easy to fix and upgrade.
When you want to have fun with a car, these matter way more than the power. Because if you are interested in learning how to drive, not just operate a car, you really want to start getting out of your comfort zone. And you don't want the thought of wrecking your more expensive car looming over your head when you overcook a corner and have to start slipping and sliding.
There are other cars that are also cheap, easy to fix and upgrade, but the Miata offers a good weight distribution, light weight, and RWD.

And when it comes to upgrading, especially for the track, buying the cheap car leaves you money for upgrading components to legit track spec stuff that is way better than the things that come on OEM cars, especially suspension. It also leaves you money to buy wheels with semi-slick tires.
All of this equals more time driving the car at the limit, which gives you the necessary experience and skill to drive faster cars properly. You don't get that kind of experience when you buy a higher performing car and become too afraid to wreck it, or can't afford to take it to the track.

Even Cristian Von Konigsegg had a 1st gen Miata early on..

>Preferably not xboxhuge

Only posers and migrants drive those kinds of BMW in my area. Can't afford to be mistook for any of those.
Also I find post E30 to be quite ugly.

>worrying about what other people think
They're still good cars. If you buy a nice one and keep it stock no one will think anything of it.

>this is something you couldve googled yourself.

I did actually, but I found many reports stating that the miata being open top, the chassis rigidity suffers when handled a bit too roughly.

Not debating any of your other points though. Furthermore seeing the roads around here, it's worse than drunk touges, power means nothing really, I easily overtake fuckers with 200hp in my shitty opel corsa 1.2l.
Now I just want to get good and stop that damn golf GTI from overtaking me on the last straight line I have before reaching my house.

No you don't understand. If i leave such a car parked in my hometown, it will be scratched and painted with rude signs all over before next morning.

I live in Corsica.

>I did actually, but I found many reports stating that the miata being open top, the chassis rigidity suffers when handled a bit too roughly.

buy one with a hardtop or buy a hardtop. its not hard. You can stiffen the chassis easily.

>not having a garage

No indeed. Can you stop being a faggot and contribute, or at least leave and return to ride your bus?

A hardtop isn't gonna mend the chassis, and as dumb as it is, it matters quite a bit to me, when half of the time spent driving is spent in curves. Sometimes wet, sometimes snowy, most of the time covered with gravel and other shit.